Fighting rages for strategic Afghan town
Hundreds of Afghan villagers are leaving their homes in Helmand province because of intense fighting between security forces and the Taliban. Fighting has been going on in Sangin for several days after Taliban fighters attacked local police checkpoints. But while many rush to escape the violence, some remain to protect their land from violence. Al Jazeera’s Jennifer Glasse reports from Kabul. 59 Source: Al Jazeera Featured on Al Jazeera Struggle and solidarity: African Union at 50 An interactive dashboard examines the history, successes and challenges facing the group as leaders meet in Addis Ababa. Al-Nakba Series on the Palestinian ‘catastrophe’ of 1948 that led to dispossession…
NKorean envoy delivers letter to China’s president
BEIJING (AP) — A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing’s efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae’s three-day visit was seen as a fence-mending mission after Pyongyang angered Beijing with recent snubs and moves to develop its nuclear program. Choe returned to North Korea late Friday. The official China News Service said Choe delivered the handwritten letter from Kim to Xi at an afternoon meeting at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing. It…
Afghan Taliban attack aid group, 2 guards killed
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said.
Chinese farmer makes home-made ‘bionic arms’
Following a devastating accident that left him severely…
Obama’s drone speech could improve Pakistan ties
ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Barack Obama's decision to impose more restrictive rules governing U.S. drone strikes and his prediction that they will be used less could pave the way for better relations with the new government of key ally Pakistan, officials and analysts said Friday.
SPC acquires Cannes Critics’ Week winner The Lunchbox
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all North American rights to Cannes Critics’ Week winner The Lunchbox. The Indian film, written and directed by Ritesh Batra, stars Life of Pi’s Irrfan Khan, Nirmat Kaur and Nakul Vaid.REVIEW: The Lunchbox In the film, a mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older stranger. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality. Batrsa said: “The film is a delicate story with lots of humour and pathos, and SPC is a good home for our film and a great team.” This deal was negotiated by Michael…
Could Lakers’ Dwight Howard end up with Golden State Warriors?
By Marcus Thompson II mthomps2@bayareanewsgroup.commercurynews.com Posted: 05/23/2013 06:16:25 PM PDT May 24, 2013 1:38 AM GMTUpdated: 05/23/2013 06:38:38 PM PDT It only makes sense the Warriors get mentioned in the third annual Dwight Howard saga. They had cameos in the first…
‘Many countries want to get China-Pak fighter jet’
Beijing: As Chinese Premier Li Keqiang wrapped up his “impressive” visit to Pakistan to firm up their economic and military ties, a Pakistan official on Friday said “numerous countries” are interested in obtaining JF-17 Thunder fighter jet jointly developed by both the countries. “We’ve been receiving inquiries and expressions of interest on the JF-17 Thunder…
Quake in Russia’s Far East Prompts Evacuations
An 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s Far East on Friday, sending tremors that prompted evacuations as far away as Moscow, more than 4,000 miles to the west of the epicenter. The United States Geological Survey recorded the earthquake at 5:44 p.m. local time at a depth of approximately 373 miles below the Sea of Okhotsk, off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russian news media reported that reverberations from the earthquake rattled furniture and…
China’s First Modern
By JULIA LOVELL It’s hard to find a precise Western analogue for Lu Xun (1881-1936). He is China’s Dickens, for his mercilessly sharp portrayals of the era he lived through; he is Joyce, a re-maker of language and form. He has a good deal of Orwell, too, for his political commentary and the plain vernacular style that he championed. And, as a writer who in his final years became a figurehead of the literary left and was sanctified by his the Chinese communist leadership after his death, he has a touch of Gorky. Lu Xun owes his immense literary reputation in mainland China primarily to his satirical fiction but also to the prose poems and polemical essays that he wrote in the last two decades…
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